Question

I have a table in my database with 2 rows of employee data.

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ID |  Name

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1 | Jon Doe

2 | Jane Doe

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I need this in my code, just like this, as code. I need to convert this into:

Employee e1 = new Employee();
e1.ID = 1;
e1.Name = "Jon Doe";

Employee e2 = new Employee();
e2.ID = 2;
e2.Name = "Jane Doe";

Now it is code it can be saved into a database when the app runs for the first time, and thus save me from writing 1200 object instances into the database.
Therefore, I just need some way, such as using XML) on the first run.

This is an example, why I need it is because, I have a table that stores settings (width,height,label for grid) etc that need to be set to something first time
the app runs.

What way could I generate this, are there any tools available, or how would you go about it?

Answer 1

The normal way to do this outside of an ORM is to write an EmployeeFactory class with a static method named something like .Create() or .FromDataRow() that accepts a DataRow as an argument and returns a new Employee object.

This way you don’t have to "pollute" your employee class with the code to do that, and you can maintain separation of concerns in a nice, testable way.